Unfortunately, I work in the showbiz industry. And occasionally, in showbiz, celebrity weddings veer towards extravagance – so I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to keep up with them.

Take Tamara Ecclestone's. The F1 heiress hired Elton John to perform at her three day, £7million ceremony in France's Grand Hotel du Cap. (Dad Bernie apparently hired out every one of the 73 rooms for the 150 A-List guests – now that's a father of the bride.)

She was ferried from the airport in a Rolls Royce (with two more vehicles for her luggage), wore a Vera Wang dress with a 30ft train, received a goose as a present and enjoyed a 30 minute firework display to mark her tying the knot to City broker Jay Rutland.

Well, bang goes my wedding wishlist, Tamara. I wanted my first dance to be to a live performance by Mariah Carey.

But Tamara is not the only one blowing the budget on tying the knot. Sean Parker, a founding president of Facebook, married singer-songwriter Alexandra Lenas in a £6.6million wedding in Grand Sur in California.

The forest was specially kitted out with fake ruins, an elaborate entrance gate and even an artificial pond – yes, they built a pond. In a forest.

To really ham up their vibe, their guests were dressed for the occasion by the costume designer for the Lord of the Rings films.

I’ve thought about kitting my bridesmaids out like something from Lord of the Rings, just so I can ensure I look better than them on the day. But my guests? I’d rather not be burdened by their choice of attire if I can help it.

So I should have rejoiced that Mrs Keira Righton (née Knightley) shunned such lavish ceremonies for a “low key” wedding earlier this year. Low key sounds more up my street.

Keira Knightley got married in an "intimate ceremony" (Photo: FilmMagic)

Grazia magazine hailed Keira as a “bridechilla” for her “ intimate ceremony ”, where she wed Klaxons star James Righton in front of just 11 guests in a tiny village in France. She drove off from the nuptials in her mother's old, battered Renault Clio.

So far, so thrifty.

But, while Keira’s quiet proceedings might have been humble for a multi-millionairess, she still splashed out £3,000 on 120 bottles of Château Minuty wine for a party for her 50 party guests, held at her parents' eight bedroom, £3million mansion.

If my parents owned a 20 acre vineyard in the South of France, I reckon I’d be pretty chilled about my do, too.

So, as much as I enjoy nosing into other people's business, I’ve decided to try to avoid using other weddings as my inspiration at all costs – specifically, to avoid increasing my own costs.

Because while I can’t afford to compete with these weddings, I'm pretty sure I don’t actually want to. As lovely as other people's weddings are, I want mine to be typically me – even if that's a lot more difficult than ripping off other people's ideas.

Plus, the last thing I need to add to my ever expanding to-do list is “build artificial pond”.